Jim Sharkey wrote:
>
> Chad Cooper wrote:
> >
> >I noticed reading Kiln People that Brin keeps referring to real
> >people as having brown-colored skin - like that was the normal
> >color for everyone. There are golems that have white or fair color,
> >but they are considered fake looking - different enough to not be
> >confused with real people. Do you think Brin was alluding to what
> >is mentioned below?
>
> That's the impression I got. That Brin saw a future of homogeneity
> (sp?), that most people would be commingled into one large state of
> "tan."
>
> OTOH, you could look at it as Brin simply is using shades of brown
> for shorthand from being a "pale blue Scotsman" like Billy Connelly
> to being a very deep brown like Wesley Snipes and all the colors in
> between.
That's how I was reading it. The dittos are any color *but* brown,
while regular humans are varying shades of brown.
Even with comingling to a great degree, there would probably be
variations from one tan to another -- skin shade can vary enough between
siblings *now* that I don't think that even after generations of
comingling on a much greater scale than we have now that humanity would
all end up the same exact shade. It just wouldn't matter as much to as
many of them.
Julia
Julia
